Joachim Otto Fleckenstein

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Joachim Otto Fleckenstein (born July 7, 1914 in Düsseldorf , † February 21, 1980 in Munich ) was a German-Swiss mathematics and astronomy historian .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1933 Fleckenstein went to Basel and studied mathematics , physics , astronomy and philosophy at the university there . In 1939 he received his doctorate with the text on the application of the self-registering micrometer in determining the pole height in the first vertical using the Struvian method . In 1948 he completed his habilitation. Until 1951 he held an assistant position in Basel, after which he continued to give lectures in Basel until the end of his life. He also taught at various universities in Germany and Izmir. Since 1963 he was professor for the history of natural sciences at the Technical University of Munich .

Fleckenstein had been a Swiss citizen since 1953. He died in Munich in 1980. His estate is in the Basel University Library .

Works (selection)

Fleckenstein was director general of the Bernoulli edition and a member of the editorial team of the edition of Euler works, to which he contributed two volumes. He was involved in the edition of works by Copernicus . He also published other works on the history of mathematics, including a. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; Baroque and universalism and scholasticism, baroque, exact sciences .

  • 1949: Brief biographies of mathematicians: Johann and Jakob Bernoulli
  • 1950: Scholasticism, Baroque, exact sciences
  • 1955: Philosophy of the Exact Sciences
  • 1956: The priority dispute between Leibniz and Newton
  • 1958: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  • 1965: Science and Politics
  • 1977: The priority dispute between Leibniz and Newton
  • 1979: Arithmos-Arrythmos
  • Fleckenstein's correspondence with Karl Ballmer

literature

  • Joseph Warren Dauben, Christoph J. Scriba, (eds.): Writing the history of mathematics, its historical development. Birkhäuser, Basel 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6166-2 , p. 427f.

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personal data
SURNAME Fleckenstein, Joachim Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss historian and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1980
Place of death Munich